They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
Harvest time is always busy on the farm. Plants mature, fruit and veggies are ready when they are reay with little to no concern for what we have going on in our non-gardening lives. Tuesday was a good example of that. Beans and blackberries are both coming in hardcore, but this is also the weekend… Continue reading Busy nights
Broccoli! Some of it survived slug-aggedon! Never mind the teethmarks. That’s what happens when you deliver vegetables to a four-year-old and tell him to take them to his mom. Quality control The ducks have been getting a little too big for their temporary, mobile shelter, since we haven’t built a permanent mobile shelter, or even… Continue reading Ducks and Broccoli.
It's that time of the year! Beans are coming in. We had our first picking on Tuesday. Nasturtiums, and a hummingbird. Six quarts, first haul of the year. (The purple ones turn green when they get pressure canned.)
Daddy was working out of town for four days last week, so it was not a very family friendly week, and consequently, slim blogging about the farm. This week Daddy is back at home and it's a short week because Thanksgiving is almost upon us. But we are trying to take the time to get… Continue reading Carrots and Parsnips and Eggs, Oh MY!
Seppi and Daddy went to the farm early on Friday to drop off apples and dig carrots and parsnips for Saturday’s soup. Some of these parsnips are gigantic! Unlike the carrots. We don’t have a speeding fork at the farm yet, so we tried to use the dung fork to break the ground. Alas, poor… Continue reading Soup Anyone?
It is supposed to freeze pretty hard this weekend, so earlier this week we went and stripped the garden. Pretty much the only thing left in their worth salvaging was pumpkin and squash. But we got a good amount of that. Dozens of pumpkins, about a dozen butternut squash, eight or 10 of the giant… Continue reading Frost on the punkin?
Got back from our family vacation early Thursday morning, and after a short day of work, went over and picked up the pork that we had cut up by a local butcher. And that is how you fit, two pigs, three chickens, and a box of tomatoes in one freezer. All told roughly about 540… Continue reading Pork!
Yesterday was a very truncated day at the farm, but we still managed to get a good chunk of work done. The tomatoes have been splitting like crazy with all the rain we've been getting, but we still managed to pick three buckets of good ones. Ellie is such a good little tomato washer! We… Continue reading Autumn Pumpkins
It is getting very cold and wet out there most days, so we decided to pull the remaining onions and bring them in to dry so they don’t rot. Most of them are pretty small, which is why we didn’t pick them earlier. Ellie Belle did the honors of picking them and stacking them on… Continue reading Bringing in the Onions
Last Saturday the three older kids went on a trip with Deedee and Papa over the pass to Yakima. While they were there they picked two boxes of apples: golden delicious, empire and gala. They brought them home and dropped them off in our garage so of course, what did we do Monday morning? We… Continue reading Lost in the (apple) sauce
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